http://blog.jtimothyking.com Stories of an Independent Author (née Software Guy) Thu, 02 Jul 2009 18:28:56 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Yes, if you're trying to find me on Twitter and you can't, it's because Twitter suspended my account. No, I did nothing to violate their Terms of Service, nor have they alleged that I have. Rather, something recent must have accidentally tripped some automatic alarm system, and their computer automatically ... http://blog.jtimothyking.com/2009/05/20/twitter-suspended-my-account I finally got around to installing the new OpenOffice 3.0 on my MacBook Pro. The big feature I've been waiting for, of course, is that OpenOffice 3 now uses the native Mac GUI. Prior versions only used X11, and Apple's X11 server kinda sucks. So using OpenOffice 2.4 is a ... http://blog.jtimothyking.com/2008/12/08/openoffice-30-on-my-mac-now-reverting-to-24 This is one of the outputs I wish Squidoodlr would give. Squidoodlr is a page that generates possible topics for Squidoo new lenses. But these ideas are too specific, too useful to be randomly generated. For example: If beauty is based on bilateral symmetry, why are most hairstyles asymetrical? Places to cowork in ... http://blog.jtimothyking.com/2008/11/13/how-does-squidoodlr-work For software developers, the new Intel Macs are the best thing since sliced bread. And someday maybe I'll write a blog post listing all the reasons why. Of course, Apple has already highlighted some of the reasons in their ads, including that it has all the power of *nix and ... http://blog.jtimothyking.com/2007/08/07/i-finally-threw-my-apple-mighty-mouse-across-the-room The blogosphere is coming of age. And the story of my recent experience with a well-known blog network illustrates a contentious issue in the blogosphere, contentious because blogging technology is just progressing too fast, even for bloggers. And because the law is moving even more slowly than the bloggers themselves. ... http://blog.jtimothyking.com/2007/08/01/sued-for-reading-an-rss-feed